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Abolish Blue Power
Julian Assele, June 4, 2026
Reviewing Stuart Schrader's Blue Power: How Police Organized to Protect and Serve Themselves, Julian Assele finds a forceful case for why police abolition is not a utopian moral demand but a political necessity emergent from decades of class struggle.
Capital’s Musk: A Review of Slobodian and Tarnoff’s “Muskism”
Reviewing Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed, Julian Assele foregrounds class antagonism and re-situates Muskism as a class strategy to re-discipline globally mobile and fragmented labor, whose efforts only further intensify the imperial and capitalist crisis. – Read review
The Catechism for American Power
Abel Bisrat finds more religious thinking than reasonable argumentation in Shadi Hamid's The Case for American Power. – Read review
The Comfort of Conspiracy: A Review of "Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism?"
Scott Patrick argues that Gabriel Rockhill's Who Paid the Pipers of Western Marxism substitutes class analysis with conspiracy-focused explanation in its attempt to understand accommodation to imperialism among Marxist intellectuals. – Read review
Against Civil Society: A Review of Anton Jäger’s 'Hyperpolitics'
Julian Assele reviews Anton Jäger’s Hyperpolitics, finding fault in a conception of civil society that implicitly takes it as a neutral field of conflict rather than a weapon in class struggle used by capital to discipline racialized surplus labor. – Read review